Hmm...What to blog about today?

I'm really not to chatty today! We had no heat in our house this morning and it was down to 55 degrees in our house! Luckily my father in law is quite handy and fixed it for us but it was a cold morning with babies. I took some pictures and I'm going to try to scrap them really soon! They looked so cute all bundled up.

I'll just share a quick layout with you and then I should get moving and not be lazy anymore! I'm sharing one of my son since I tend to do more layouts of my daughter! This one was done for the Word of the Week Challenge (WOW) at Stuff to Scrap. It's my first time participating in it but when I saw that we could chose any -able word about a loved one, I knew I had to use the word pinchable! My son has the chubbiest cheeks! I used Boy Wonder by Sus Designs and the template is by Sweet Tomato Designs. This week's word is ball. Noah loves to play ball but I don't think I've captured any photos of him playing ball. Maybe I should take some tomorrow!

Sneak Peek

Janice, JW Digi-Scraps, said I could show you the sneak peek of her kit coming out on the 13th! Here it is! It's a fun Valentine's Day kit for kids but it is also good for scrapping other things. I'll give you a hint.I did not make a Valentine's Day layout instead I used 2 of the colors to make a layout of my babies with a sports team outfit on. Any ideas what team I'm talking about?? Come back on Saturday to see the full kit plus the layouts that I made using this kit.

News and a Challenge

Sorry I didn't blog yesterday, I'm working on a couple different projects. One is a mini scavenger hunt for the guests to play at my twin's 1st birthday party. I wanted to have a game that adults would like since my twins will probably be napping and my niece will be too, so it just leaves adults! I love participating in road rallys and scavenger hunts. My sister and dad put together a road rally for my 30th birthday. It was so much fun! Not too long ago my sister put together a photo scavenger hunt for a date day for my husband and I. I have her about 30 minutes notice! I'm working on scrapping that into a small flip book.

Another project I'm working on is related to digital scrapbooking. Stuff to Scrap has a forum blog train challenge. Anyone can sign up to make a mini kit or QP for the color palette and theme for that month. The train departs on the 1st of each month. I've picked up several of the trains before and I love them! I decided to try my hand at designing. So if I get it done in time, you'll get a free mini kit from me on March 1st. This month's theme is French Tulips and it has red, light green, light blue, navy and beige. I'm almost done with my papers. I love making papers! I wanted to make my own elements but I'm not that good! I'll probably have to get some CU stuff and then recolor it. But I'm trying to extract stuff.

A third project is what relates to my news. I don't know if you noticed but I have another CT blinkie on the right. I got accepted into JW Digi Scraps' creative team! Janice has a Valentine's Day kit that is going to be released on Saturday. I've already done one page for it and I'm going to work on another one soon. Stay tuned because you might get a freebie QP out of it!

Onto the challenge. I participated into another speed scrap at Stuff to Scrap yesterday. Luckily my babies cooperated and napped until I was done! I used a kit called Happy Day by Mel Hains Designs. I really love her style plus she gives away one free kit over the course of 4 weeks. This was last months (I think). Due to the instructions given for the speed scrap I had to use two elements that weren't in her kit. The straight stitches are from Os designs and the circle stitches are from Aprilisa Designs' Best Friends kit which I recolored. i've been wanted to scrap these pictures for a while but never got around to it. I just love watching my babies play duets on the piano!

2 challenges in one!

Since I love challenges so much and I do them at a variety of sites, I thought why not combine 2 different ones? The two challenges I combined were the Use It or Lose It Challenge at Stuff to Scrap and the Quote Challenge at Digital Scrap Cafe. Val C. Designs at Digital Shop Cafe came up with the quote "You make me laugh even when life is far from funny" and even made a word art for us to use. The Use It or Lose It Challenge is when you are given a mini kit and you have to use all the pieces! This kit was made by Little Red Scraps and it is called Everyday Moments Sampler. I love the blues and greens because then I can use the kit to scrap pictures of my son. I thought these colors would go perfectly with the quote which I recolored to make work with my layout. It's true that these babies make me laugh even when life is far from funny!

Another Be Mine Layout

Well I made another layout with Marni Designs' new kit Be Mine. I tired to make it not focused on love to show you how versatile this kit can be. I also combined this layout with the recipe challenge at Stuff to Scrap. It's where they give you a list of things you HAVE to use in your layout. This one called for 1 solid paper (oh boy, I really wanted to add more paper!), 2 pictures of the same person at different times (that's what gave me the idea of showing how the babies have changed), 1 ribbon or bow, 1 flower, 1 brad or eyelet, stitching or stapes, title and any other elements you want to add. I had a hard time with the flower because I don't think flowers belong on pages for boys! The kit didn't come with eyelets but have no fear, I just used the dot off the i in the alpha! I tried making my own eyelets but the dot in the i looked much better! I added a few more elements but not too many. I love how it turned out (I seem to say that about all my layouts-but it's true! I wouldn't post them if I didn't like them). Don't forget that through the month of February you can get $2 off Be Mine. Download my freebie quickpage in the post below to get the coupon code.

New Release Be Mine and QP Freebie

Marni Designs has just released her new kit called Be Mine. The colors are so fun and bright for Valentine's Day. It has white, pink, red, plus splashes of black and aqua. It's a great modern Valentine's Day kit but can be used for many other purposes too! I scrapped a picture of my babies that I just love! The kit has so many cute elements inluding a little bird and some really cool hearts! Check out the preview:You can pick it up in here store at Brownie Scraps here. If you dowload my freebie QP (see below) you get a $2 off coupon good through the month of February!

Here is one of my layouts that I did with her kit.

Here is another one of my layouts that I did with Be Mine. This one is available as a freebie QP! I changed the title on the QP so it's more versatile.

Click here to download the QP. Please leave some love if you like it (it's my first QP and my first freebie)! ***Sorry, link expired***

Enjoy the QP and head over to Marni Designs' store at Brownie Scraps to pick up this kit. If you look at my list of favorite blogs, you might find some other freebies there for this kit!

Sneak Peek

Aren't you all lucky! Two posts in one day! Well I'm here to show you a sneak peek of Marni Designs' kit "Be Mine" that will be released tomorrow. You don't know how many times I have almost uploaded my layouts to various galleries and to post here. Oops, that would have been bad! Anyways, here's the look at her kit. Come back tomorrow for a freebie QP!

Wii Fit

We got a wii and wii fit for Christmas this year. It's been so much fun to use it although I haven't used it in several days. My daughter Natalie has been obsessed with the wii balance board. I'm not quite sure what she finds so appealing, maybe it's just an obstacle for her to try to crawl over. She loves to push up on it and when she does it looks like she's exercising. I joke that she can do downward facing dog better than I can! I just had to scrap pictures that I took of her exercising.

The colors in the pictures and the outfit that Natalie was wearing lent themselves very well to working with Aprilisa Designs' kit called Best Friends. I just truly love this kit with it's beautiful color palette, gorgeous papers and fun elements. This kit just keeps calling me name. Here's a preview of the kit:

Here is the layout that I made using this beautiful kit. The scalloped border is a template by Delicious Scraps. I love scallops! It's Natalie funny?

Thanks for stopping by!

Defining Moments

I recently started scrapping with a kit called Defining Moments by Marni Designs and Brandy Designs and it is just so much fun. The colors are gorgeous and work for both boys and girls plus a whole range of other photos. Since I have a boy and a girl I try to find kits that will work for both of them. I also try to find kits that have elements besides flowers because I have hard time putting flowers on a layout for my son! This kit was great to play with. So far I've only made one layout but I can't wait to make more. Here's what her kit looks like.

Here's what my page looks like. I scrapped pictures of my son, Noah, when he was 4 months old and started grabbing things. It really looked like he was hunting keys. I think these pictures turned out great! My favorite part of the kit (so far) is the loopy ribbons with the stitching that I put on the side of the top right picture. I just couldn't wait to use them the minute I saw them! Aren't they fabulous?

Oops! I forgot to mention that this was done for a template challenge at Brownie Scraps. Although over there all their challenges have names that have to do with brownies or baking. I can't keep which challenge is which straight! I think the template challenge is called Semi Homemade Challenge. The template is by Leenie Lou Designs.

Be back later with other layouts from a kit by Marni Designs that releases on February 5th. I will have a freebie for you too! I may also have other news to share but I'm waiting on some final details. Stay tuned.

Excitement!

Sorry I didn't come back and post my second simple layout yesterday but I got some exciting news and I just couldn't focus on anything else! (Good thing for my husband because we were playing games again and he totally skunked me again twice!) I applied for several CTs (Creative Teams) last week because I want to do more with my scrapping. I know my gallery isn't very large but I thought I might as well try. Well I found out yesterday that I made one of the CTs that I applied for!!!! Yay!!!!

I'm now a CT member for Marni Designs who is exclusively at Brownie Scraps. You can link to her store through my blog anytime you want by clicking on the blinkie on the right. I am so excited to be on this CT because she has such beautiful kits! She had one posted for us to get started on right away for a kit that is going to come out on February 5th. I couldn't sleep last night because I was up thinking about this and being excited! I couldn't wait to get started this morning as soon as the babies let me! I already have one layout done which you can't see until the kit is released! Sorry!

I'll keep you posted and keep an eye out for more layouts done with Marni Designs!